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Petroglyph Digitization: Enabling Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Machine Vision and Applications
  • George V. Landon, Cedarville University
  • W. Brent Seales
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2007
DOI
10.1007/s00138-006-0044-0
Abstract

The digitization of antiquities is facilitating a renaissance for scholars who have unprecedented access to rich representations of objects. Cultural Heritage digitization is a central challenge, and its subtleties are intertwined with object properties and the constraints of physical access and handling. In this paper, we present the design and analysis of a system built for the digitization of Puerto Rican petroglyphic iconography. The petroglyphs exhibit unique properties (shape, size, surface) that determine system design choices. The 3D models obtained with the system support new scholarly and educational activities, including interactive surface lighting, feature highlighting and annotation through mark-up, and immersive viewing using large-scale displays.

Keywords
  • 3D scanning,
  • enhanced study tools,
  • epigraphy,
  • rock art,
  • structured-light,
  • sub-pixel peak detection
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
George V. Landon and W. Brent Seales. "Petroglyph Digitization: Enabling Cultural Heritage Scholarship" Machine Vision and Applications Vol. 17 Iss. 6 (2007) p. 361 - 371 ISSN: 0932-8092
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/george-landon/1/